A look at the four highest-scoring weeks (by average) in NFL history. Week 12 of 2008 was the highest total points ever scored in a single week.
Week/Yr.PointsGamesPPGWeek 7/19837611454.36Week 6/19877361452.57Week 12/20088371652.31Week 10/19807321452.29 The total of 837 points was the most ever in a single weekend, breaking the mark of 788. That was done three times: Sept 5-9, 2002; Dec. 5-6, 2004 and Dec. 29-30, 2007.NFL games last weekend averaged 52.31 points per game. The average is the most since 52.57 in Week 6 of the 1987 season (there were 736 total points scored in 14 games that week).
NFL games have averaged 45 combined points this year. If that holds, it will top last season's average of 43.4 and the record average in the 31 seasons of a 16-game schedule: 43.7 points in 1983.
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